I first played a piece by Emily Doolittle back in 2017 while playing second clarinet with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and we performed her piece Sapling. I enjoyed her work so much that I started following on social media, then discovered Field Music. Written for solo clarinet in 1998 for Jennifer Barlament the piece is reminiscent of birdsong, birds in flight, and other sounds you might find out in nature.
A few of Doolittle’s accomplishments include projects pertaining to birdsong and working with ornithologists and biologists. In 2011 she was composer in residence at the Max Plank Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen in Germany. She is currently in Scotland but originally from the east coast in Canada and featured on the Canadian Music Centre Website
I highly recommend checking out her work, as well as coming to hear me perform on February 16th.